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Mr. Giordano sought a reduction after federal sentencing guidelines were made advisory rather than mandatory.

If the changes go ahead, the European Court's judgments would be treated as "advisory" rather than binding in the future.

Given the lack of a written constitution, it was always the case that the referendum was advisory rather than binding.

Even though the guidelines are "merely advisory" rather than mandatory, as the Supreme Court ruled in 2005, they play an important role in sentencing.

The two decisions issued yesterday built on a 2005 decision that made the federal sentencing guidelines advisory rather than mandatory, which led to the modest trend toward leniency.

Although Tibetan monasteries have prided themselves on the presence of one or more lamas, they really stood above and outside the operational hierarchy, and their function was and is advisory rather than executive.

They were frequently driven at close to their full speed, treating hazard warnings as advisories rather than calls to action.

"Obviously, the FDA will have to come up with some decision based on the comments of the advisory committee rather than the vote of the advisory committee," says Leonard Yaffe, an analyst at Banc of America Securities.

But they acknowledged that women on the economic team had tended to hold advisory roles, rather than policy-making roles.

A channel of complaint from the population can only lead to an advisory department, rather than the funding source, according to Stephen Wilkinson at the International Institute for the Study of Cuba.

Moreover, since the ruling was in response to a specific question, it was probably meant as an advisory opinion rather than a formal edict.